Aradial Converged Voip Billing
Aradial Converged VOIP Billing
Overview
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Aradial Converged VOIP Billing Overview
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Document Information
Software Version:
3.x
Document Version:
1.0
Publication Date:
2009
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Contents
1.
Company Background ........................................................................................................ 4
2.
Converged Billing Overview .............................................................................................. 5
Prepaid .................................................................................................................................... 5
Rating Capabilities ................................................................................................................ 6
Calling Cards ......................................................................................................................... 6
Postpaid – ............................................................................................................................... 7
Customer Management ......................................................................................................... 8
Technical ................................................................................................................................ 8
Spotngo enhanced Vouchers and Credit Cards Payment System Module ....................... 10
3.
Aradial Radius Overview ................................................................................................. 11
4.
Aradial Datasheet and Performance .............................................................................. 14
5.
Architecture ........................................................................................................................ 17
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1. Company Background
Aradial RADIUS solutions have been servicing large and small ISPs since 1997,
with NASDAQ traded ISPs trusting their RADIUS needs with Aradial RADIUS
infrastructure. Aradial RADIUS is high performing with Tier 1 levels of reliability and
scalability. Aradial RADIUS supports the latest RFCs, vendor specific attributes, NAS
templates and has a multitude of pre-configured settings that support most Access
Servers in the market today.
Aradial offers products that open a whole new set of possibilities for ISPs
and Hot Spot (WiFi), ASPs, Wireless LAN and large corporations.
Utilizing open standards such as RADIUS and SNMP and EAP, and innovative
technologies such as VPN and LDAP, the Aradial product family offers unmatched
features and performance at an affordable price.
Aradial RADIUS solutions are installed in over 50 countries* supporting services
such as: (* As a Radius server and as a part of billing solution).
• Voice services over IP
• Wi-Fi hotspots and Wireless ISPs
• DSL, Cable, ISDN, Dialup
• PPPoE and VPN internet access (both terminating and distributor RADIUS
server roles)
• Rented Infrastructure (such as the one provided by Quest, Verizon, BT)
• Content Subscriptions
• Internet Kiosk and Internet Café
Aradial Ltd's premier product is the Aradial product family and, a state of the art,
RADIUS server.
The Aradial comes in few configurations:
• Small operators
• Medium operators
• Large scale operators (Tier 1)
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2. Converged Billing Overview
Prepaid
• Centralized authentication and accounting for al the routers or gateways.
• Converged services: VOIP, Dial-up, Wifi and ISP Broadband/DSL support
on the same platform.
• SSL secured HTML based administration.
• Extended HTML UI for user database and groups of users.
• High-performance and reliable server.
• Scalable to handle mil ions of users and concurrent sessions on a low-end
hardware.
• Support for most of the Access points and VOIP gateways on the market.
• Balance, Duration and Traf ic enforcement.
• Balance and Credit Limit per user/cal ing card.
• User concurrency enforcement and viewing concurrent cal s from the
administration tool.
• Support for multi-session cal s using balance management (Quota
management).
• HTTP API for external systems and customization.
• External bil ing system interface using stored procedures or CORBA.
• Optional: Integration with SNMP based NMS.
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Rating Capabilities
• ANI based (cal er id) VOIP prepaid bil ing.
• Rating according to cal destination.
• Dif erent rounding intervals per tarif or per destination.
• Cal Setup cost.
• Rating according to time of day, day of week.
• Unlimited number of rate tables and Tarif definition.
• Import of rates from CSV files.
Calling Cards
• Authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) and real time VOIP prepaid.
• Convergent prepaid bil ing – Dial-up, DSL, Wireless LAN, Mobile and VOIP
• Ful prepaid system for VocalTec, Mailvision, Alcatel, Cisco, Quintum, NexGe,
Mera, Telrad gatekeepers/sip gateways and many others.
• Cal ing Card based prepaid bil ing.
• Cal ing card generation importing and exporting.
• Replenishing API or voucher refil ing (*) with Spotngo Payment module.
• Support multiple Tarif s and destination rating tables that can be assigning for
a cal ing card.
• Session reports and summary reports per cal ing card, per system, per
destinations and periods.
• Optional: Monthly statement reports for cal ing card
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Postpaid Billing
• Recurring charges (RC)
• RC Proration
• One time charges
• Taxes
• Multiple bil ing cycles
• Automatic invoice generation
• Automatic sending of invoices by mail
• Advanced bil day workflow
o Run / Rerun
o Undo
o QA
o Confirm
o Bil Production
• Open Item / Balance Forward
• Prepaid statements
• Credit limit
• Optional module - Termination bil ing including wholesale credit limit and
fraud control
• Trouble Ticketing
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Customer Management
• User information definition
• Account can contain unlimited number of users
• Advanced search for users
• View users sessions
• Self Care module to view the account by the user
• History of successful/unsuccessful cal s
• Send email to users
• Adjust time and money, change password, etc
• Dealer/Business partner management. Dealers can manage their own
users.
• Support for multiple Admin types.
• Admin activity tracking.
Technical
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• OS: Windows XP, 2003, Linux and Solaris (optional)
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• Ful support for Alcatel RADIUS VSA compatible IVR, SIP applications
servers, and B2BUAs.
• H323 RADIUS at ributes
• Ful Prepaid and Postpaid bil ing support for open source GNU Gatekeeper
(ht p:/ www.gnugk.org) and al Cisco VOIP VSA compliant gateways,
gatekeepers, and soft-switches.
• IP Phone and MAC VOIP bil ing
• SIP, H323 and MGCP prepaid in the same VOIP RADIUS software
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• Support for Cisco Debit card TCL application
• Support for IVR interface (query balance) and announcements.
• Optional: Access number tarif separation.
• Optional: Redirect numbers to another number.
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Spotngo enhanced Vouchers and Credit Cards
Payment System Module
The fol owing is supported in the Payment module which is a Portal and a
back of ice module:
1. Plan/Tarif management (time, traf ic and expiration).
2. Wal ed Garden portal.
3. Portal can have dif erent look and per location.
4. Voucher generation and management using plans.
5. Sign up a user from the portal using a voucher.
6. Refil the user with new voucher (each voucher has a tarif plan with time,
traf ic or expiration).
7. Create a user using credit card.
8. Refil by Credit card.
9. Multiple Payment gateways support including Authorize.net, PayFlow,
PayPal and others.
10. Multi-merchant support, al ows defining a merchant to a price plan.
11. Report payments history.
12. Secured portal (SSL).
13. Secured voucher, Plans management (SSL).
14. Printing and exporting PINS to CSV files.
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3. Aradial Radius Overview
Aradial is a high performance full-featured RADIUS server. Boasting excellent
performance and technological superiority, Aradial is the unquestioned market leader
in its class.
Extensive support for: ISP, Wireless LAN, Mobile Companies.
The server includes some of the most innovative features available in the market
today. It is easy of use, scalable and features a plug-in architecture providing
support for almost any new functionality or network element.
Aradial's 100% web-based interface ensures easy connectivity from anywhere.
Coupled with a state server that enables to monitor what is happening in the
network, in real time, Aradial turns a web browser into the ultimate remote control.
Through an easy to use scripting interface fail over mechanisms can be applied,
some resources cab be dedicated for particular end users, time of day decisions on
network load can be made, and much more.
Using policy algorithms, Aradial can implement rule-based authentication giving a
complete manageability of network resources.
Aradial is vendor independent allowing to use Cisco's access servers including
Wireless LAN (Arionet series) , Ascend's MAX Series, Lucent's Portmaster, Bay's,
Shiva's, any combination of them or any other RADIUS enabled product.
Wireless Security Suite: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), 802.1X, EAP Cisco
Wireless (LEAP), Protected EAP (PEAP), and Cisco Secure Access Control Server
(ACS).
Aradial can use its own user database, an external ODBC compliant database or use
a LAN user database with Aradial LAN to WAN permissions mapping mechanism,
without any duplicate user database hassles.
Support for connection to LDAP, allowing maintaining a single centralized user
database.
Additionally, the server's full list of administrative and reporting utilities make it a
single point of control.
Aradial's advanced proxy support allows transparent operation in even the most
complex of network environments.
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Advance connectivity to billing systems both in Postpaid and Prepaid market such as:
Rodopi and Advanced ISP Billing. And also, Tier one billing providers such as
Amdocs Enabler, Portal Intranet, Geneva, Formula Leap+ and Leap NextGen.
Aradial, a powerhouse of features and performance is affordably priced and ready to
download for an evaluation today.
Reliability and scalability
Aradial RADIUS is a true performed with Tier 1 (99.997%) reliability and scalability
to comfortably support over a million subscribers. Though installed and suited to
serve the largest providers, the Aradial RADIUS is high performing and therefore
requires low cost hardware, supporting most service providers’ requirements on a
commercial Pentium machine.
Web based administration
Aradial RADIUS turns the web browser into a remote control. The server can be
accessed from anywhere in the world over secure SSL, with no client side installation
what so ever. All needed is a web browser in order to configure RADIUS settings
from anywhere, view all currently online sessions, modify the subscriber record, and
more.
Support for the latest RFCs
Aradial software supports the latest RADIUS RFCs, supporting xDSL services, vendor
specific attributes and a host of other features such as predefined attribute check
lists. Aradial’s experience in the RADIUS and billing market means that you are
guaranteed a solution that will continue evolving into the future.
Aradial Radius is compliant with the following RADIUS RFCs:
• RFC 2865 -- Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (obsoletes
RFC 2138; updated by RFC 2868)
• RFC 2866 -- RADIUS Accounting (obsoletes RFC 2139; updated by
RFC 2867)
• RFC 2869 -- RADIUS Extensions
• RFC 2548 -- Microsoft Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes
• RFC 2809 -- Compulsory Tunneling via RADIUS
• RFC 2868 -- RADIUS Attributes for Tunneling Support
• RFC 2882 -- NAS Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices
• RFC 2619 and 2621 -- Radius Authorization and Accounting SNMP
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Full support for Secure Wireless RADIUS
Hot Spot Server for wireless includes an integrated RADIUS server that is
particularly suited for the security and authentication requirements of
wireless based network including:
EAP based authentication – EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP, LEAP
MAC Address based authentication
IEEE 802.1x based WEP security
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4. Aradial Datasheet and
Performance
Features
OS
Windows NT, 2000, XP
Unix: Solaris, Linux
Development C++, C, HTML and HTS, SQL, TCL.
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Ful RFC 2138, Ful RFC 2139, RADIUS Extensions, Proxy & Roaming, and
Vendor Specific.
Pass through Authentication: ODBC, RADIUS Proxy, NT SAM, and LDAP.
Policy Algorithms writ en in C++ or TCL.
Token Authentication: Security Dynamics
Operation
Application
System Service/Application
Performance Tested with 500,000 users in the database.
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Low: 100 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium IV 2.4GHZ, Win XP, 512MB
with Access database.
Low: 120 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium IV 2.4GHZ, Win XP, 512MB
with Sql Server database.
Low: 300 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium I I 500, NT 4 Server, 128MB
with Oracle (on the same machine).
Low: 350 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium IV 2.4GHZ, Win XP, 512MB
with Oracle (on the same machine).
Low: 180 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium
m I , Linux, 256MB
with Oracle (on a one CPU NT machine).
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Medium: 600 per/sec on 2 CPU Pent
n ium
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with Oracle (on the same machine).
Medium: 1500 per/sec 8 CPU Sun, Solaris 8.0
with Oracle (on the same machine).
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Low: 30 per/sec on 1 CPU Pentium
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with Access database.
Low: 50 per/sec on 1 CPU Pentium
u IV 2.4GHZ, Win XP, 512MB
with Sql Server database.
Low: 150 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium I I , NT 4 Server, 128MB
with Oracle (on the same machine).
Low: 210 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium IV 2.4GHZ, Win XP, 512MB
with Oracle (on the same machine).
Low: 150 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
n ium I , Linux, 256MB
with Oracle (on one CPU NT machine).
Medium: 380 per/sec on 2 CPU Pent
n ium
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with Oracle (on the same machine).
Medium: 800 per/sec 8 CPU Sun, Solaris 8.0
with Oracle (on the same machine).
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Low: 600 per/sec on 1 CPU Pent
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with Oracle (on the same machine).
Medium: 1200
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with Oracle (on the same machine).
Latency
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Http Server Thin client (3rd/4th generation web browser) served by either proprietary or
ISAPI/NSAPI/CGI compatible web server.
General
Maximal Users : Unlimited
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Maximal Groups: Unlimited
Y2K Compliancy: Ful , if OS and database are compliant.
Databases
Internal (MS Access MDB file), MS SQL Server, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, MySQL
(Al platforms), LDAP.
Oracle works both with ODBC and OCI.
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5. Architecture
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